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...tung's decision was for industry, not man, for greater tension, not less. The sloganeers took over from the economists. Without iron and steel, they shouted, China is "like a fat man-all flesh and no bone and muscle." Did the farms need fertilizer? Crowed an official: "I think of the stomach of every man and animal as a small fertilizer factory...
...damp, bone-chilling mornings, factory workers line up in alleyways to buy bits of pancake or oily fritters at outdoor stoves. Often the street hawker runs out of food before half the line is fed. Those who can afford it visit the "free" markets, where peasants sell eggs at 30? each, peanuts at $2 per Ib. and chickens...
...obituary columns: the death of a big collector can convulse the market by suddenly making available treasures that have been out of reach for years. The death of an artist can have even more interesting repercussions. Two years ago, Octogenarian Jacques Villon fractured his hip bone, and the rumor quickly spread that he was dying. Within 24 hours, his canvases disappeared from gallery walls all over Paris as dealer after dealer waited for Villon prices to skyrocket. The old man recovered, but as one Right Bank dealer sheepishly says of himself and his colleagues: "We are like a bunch...
...school districts with no faculty apartments, the local chief volunteered to share his own modern home to accommodate Peace Corps Teacher Thomas Livingston. Ghanaian students, used to the magisterial ways of British-trained masters, have responded well to Peace Corps teaching. Says Martin Larbi of Accra's La Bone Secondary School: "They're better than our other foreign teachers." Enthuses Nadio Baako. a student in Kumasi: "It's like a fresh wind off the sea, having these teachers...
...megaton bomb alone would cause 40,000 babies to be born with physical defects in the next few generations, and 400,000 more defective or still-born babies over the next 6,000 years-or slightly more than one a week. He also expects uncounted cases of bone cancer, leukemia and other physical defects to appear in humans now alive. At the other extreme is Dr. Edward Teller, professor of physics at the University of California and a developer of the H-bomb, who insists that there is no worldwide danger from fallout as a result of nuclear testing. Says...